Stature Quotes
145 quotes by 130 authors
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My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues…
— Herman Cain
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its…
— Thomas Carlyle
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When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be…
— Donald Bradman
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being…
— Adolf Hitler
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Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature,…
— Steve Rushin
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The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow…
— Carl Jung
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Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he…
— Joseph Campbell
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Space is the stature of God.
— Joseph Joubert
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I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One's stature is greater, one's step more elastic, one's aura more powerful; and it makes other…
— Walter Russell
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It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will…
— Ayn Rand
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent…
— William Wardell
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If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for…
— Elbert Hubbard
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral…
— Jeff Cooper
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Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the…
— Edgar Mitchell
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One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone…
— Maria Menounos
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Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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